dkyeager

Anything of interest in the release notes?

Great work. What where the upload speeds on the 140MHz (NR CA should do that much better than LTE)? To be clear, were you able to access all 190MHz at this time? Any other bands in this CA mix? Thanks.

Does the Samsung Band Selection app work? (useful with Verizon and AT&T; this type of development takes a while thus they may not have blocked it yet.)

round 11: move past $150 Million https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php#county_details_table_overlay VA is 97% settled. 100% for C3 licenses.

Title says it all: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20220805/spectrum/2-5-ghz-auction-crawls-to-143-million

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/dish-launches-sign-page-boost-infinite-launch-later-fall Screen alludes to using all three networks (Dish then AT&T or T-Mobile). Could be great if done right.

It certainly would help T-Mobile with VoNR (VoLTE) , given that 700MHz always appears over capacity.

Round 10: 75% of the licenses are settled nationwide. Looking at the c3 licenses which should favor T-Mobile, 87% are settled, 11% contested, 2% no bids. If T-Mobile controls all the BR licenses, then they would have 88MHz of contiguous plus 6MHz at the start of Band 41 to uses or lease. Personally I hope that T-Mobile gets at least 100MHz contiguous everywhere feasible. CA 88% settled, 6% no bids, 6% still competing. Counties: Lassen(3), Modoc(2), Siskiyou(2), Mapiposa, Napa.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/tmobile-sprint.pdf see pages 12 and 13. There may be further deals that are technically public, but we can not easily find. Seems to be that it has now become cheaper for Dish to decline. If it does so, the AGs in the various states may have a say on it.

Round 9 settled licenses remain about the same. Slight nibbling of unsold licenses (will try to see if FCC is reducing the price. All details not loaded correctly so this will need to wait.) Total FCC potential revenue is now $143 million. about $62 million each for c1 and c2 with c3 at about 18 million.

I think having a forth carrier in urban areas with it picking between the other carriers in rural areas is viable. Not what they agreed to with the DOJ, but doubt they would be killed off if they don't make that commitment level, especially if our usual historical trends continue and we switch to a republican administration.

Round 8 settled licenses remains about the same. NE is 93% settled. C3 license unsettled counties: Burt, Cuming, Wayne.

My bad. I meant to say Verizon or AT&T. Thus AT&T.

https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/dish-expected-to-walk-away-from-t-mobiles-800mhz-spectrum/d/d-id/779468? Why wouldn't Dish try to knock down the price or get other sweeteners? Won't be over until its over. Still like band 5 plus band 26 being redone to better fit the 5G era.

The lack of band 70 support is why I am not signed up for Genesis. I keep checking for nr70 permissive change on the s22. Also waiting for frequency band details on the Qualcomm x70 modem or other phones.

iirc T-Mobile has band 5 there, so who ever is short band 5: Verizon or T-Mobile AT&T.

WA has King county with no bids. It it listed as heavily encumbered. Only 36% of the licenses are settled. TX has no demand in Harris (Houston), c1 & c2 for Bexar, c3 for Coryell and Hamilton. All are heavily encumbered. about 63% of the licenses are settled. Here are the follwing counties with unsettled bids for c3: Angelina Armstrong Atascosa Blanco Borden Bosque Brewster Briscoe Brown Burnet Camp Childress Coke Coleman Collingsworth Comanche Concho Crockett Culberson Dallam Deaf Smith Donley Edwards Falls Foard Gaines Gonzales Gray Hall Hansford Hardeman Hartley Hays Hemphill Hudspeth Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jeff Davis Kimble Lampasas Lavaca Lipscomb McCulloch Mason Menard Milam Montague Moore Nacogdoches Newton Ochiltree Oldham Panola Pecos Presidio Rains Reagan Roberts Runnels Rusk San Augustine San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shelby Sherman Sterling Sutton Terrell Titus Tom Green Tyler Val Verde Wheeler Wood Yoakum Young Bastrop Caldwell Lee Sabine

Round 7 did not change the settled licenses much. Now at $135 Million total. Ky is about 93% settled. Only Harlan has an unsettled c3. SC is about 76% settled with c3 active bids still occurring for Allendale, Beaufort, Dillion, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Marion,

At the end of round 6, we have a lot of bids dropping out. 72% of the licenses are now settled nationwide. In Ohio Licking county is settled. 83% of Ohio 2.5 ED licenses are now settled for this auction. In WV, for c3, only the Mineral county contest remains, 90% of the overall licenses are now uncontested. In Minnesota, all is settled, except: Kittson Marshall Polk Wilkin

I view Dish as a beta wireless company even if you ignore Genesis. They just leave so many loose ends. At first only new customers could get the price reductions, but only online. When I signed up for a three month deal (did not trust them for a year) it comes back and tells you the $45 rate is monthly. You have to trust them that it will be only every 90 days (I eliminated autopay until after 60 days). Now I was just given the option on another plan that was excluded. There was no publicity of this change, it just happened. Look at 5g. With AT&T the icon appears to be on all the time, 5g or not. When using T-Mobile you sometimes get it other times not. This seems to be related to the sim card interaction with the phone model or maybe being in a market with Genesis. Talk to stores about anything technical? Russian roulette odds of finding someone knowledgeable IMO. Now it does appear that they are trying to set up intelligent systems to make up for this. Telephone was quite friendly and tries to be helpful. Great potential, but I agree that it sounds like Sprint.

That is being done separately. For a while T-Mobile has been buying up ED licenses when possible else signing long term leases. We have a separate thread on FCC auctions which is covering 108. Short version is most of the counties only have one bidder, and c3, which is most attractive to T-Mobile, has the least competition.

Round 5 is posted to the above links. Ohio is about the same (bids slowly increasing on contested licenses). Let's look at WV. In terms of the c3 license that would benefit T-Mobile most, it is only contested in Kanawha and Mineral counties. 78% of the 3 licenses are uncontested.

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/tepid-demand-taxation-fears-drag-at-25ghz-spectrum-auction-for-5g/d/d-id/779397? If bids end up where expected, and licenses with only one bid are effectively done, there could be a huge disparity in license costs from high demand to low demand areas. If the bidding ends as predicted, and it takes the FCC another month to complete additional paperwork and process payments, the T-Mobile could be adding any new spectrum to its existing sites in October/November. Rural performance could drastically increase plus many more areas could be opened up for Home Internet as well

Been following these guys for a long time. Should have posted about them before. Here is an interesting article about their current status: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/starry-likes-its-chances-during-these-tough-economic-times

You can get your own data here (must filter first): https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/auction108/reports/product_status I looked at Ohio. 54% of the licenses only have 1 bidder at the end of round 3, The only counties that are not settled in any of the 3 licenses are: Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lake, Licking, Paulding, Putnam, Williams. Licking is Columbus. The rest are up north towards ichigan (Go Bucks!!) or Ontario (within 3 counties of the border). My hope is this means T-Mobile goes to at least 88Mhz contiguous band 41 in 88% of the Ohio counties.